DESCRIPTION

Yakovlev Yak-1b Soviet Aces

Box contents:

* plastic parts
* decals with four markings options
* instruction with canopy and wheel masks template

Markings options:

* Yak-1b, No 58, 152 GuIAP, Maj. Sergei Danilovich Lugansky, July 1944, Ukrainian Front. Pilot achieved 34 aerial vicotories and 1 shared and was awarded with „Hero of Soviet Union” star twice. Aeroplane was a gift from Komsomol members and Youth from the city Alma-Ata.
* Yak-1b, No 5, 427 IAP, pilot Cptn. Pavel Maksimovich Chuvelyov, Sokolniki, August 1943. Pilot achieved 5 aerial vicotories and 1 shared.
Yak-1b, No 16, 31 GuIAP, Maj. Aleksei Mikhailovich Reshetov, 1944. Pilot achieved 22 aerial vicotories and 10 shared and was awarded with „Hero of Soviet Union” star twice. Aeroplane was a gift from kolkhoz memebers of the Shotovka village council of the Ivanovsky district of the Zaporozhye.
* Yak-1b, 31 GuIAP, Maj. Boris Nikolayevich Yeryomin, 1943. Pilot achieved 8 aerial vicotories and 15 shared. In 1942 Yeryomin refused receiving „Hero of Soviet Union” star and was finally decorated in 1990. Aeroplane was a gift from member of kolkhoz “Stakhanovets”, comrade Golovaty. It was modified to carry aerial reconnaissance camera.